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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Alikakos, Nicholas D.
Fusco, Giorgio
Smyrnelis, Panayotis
Titre(s) : Elliptic systems of phase transition type [Texte électronique] / Nicholas D. Alikakos, Giorgio Fusco, Panayotis Smyrnelis
Publication : Cham : Birkhäuser, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Collection : Progress in nonlinear differential equations and their applications, ISSN 1421-1750
; volume 91
Lien à la collection : Progress in nonlinear differential equations and their applications (Online)
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
This book focuses on the vector Allen-Cahn equation, which models coexistence of three
or more phases and is related to Plateau complexes? non-orientable objects with a
stratified structure. The minimal solutions of the vector equation exhibit an analogous
structure not present in the scalar Allen-Cahn equation, which models coexistence
of two phases and is related to minimal surfaces. The 1978 De Giorgi conjecture for
the scalar problem was settled in a series of papers: Ghoussoub and Gui (2d), Ambrosio
and Cabré (3d), Savin (up to 8d), and del Pino, Kowalczyk and Wei (counterexample
for 9d and above). This book extends, in various ways, the Caffarelli-Córdoba density
estimates that played a major role in Savin's proof. It also introduces an alternative
method for obtaining pointwise estimates. Key features and topics of this self-contained,
systematic exposition include:? Resolution of the structure of minimal solutions in
the equivariant class, (a) for general point groups, and (b) for general discrete
reflection groups, thus establishing the existence of previously unknown lattice solutions.?
Preliminary material beginning with the stress-energy tensor, via which monotonicity
formulas, and Hamiltonian and Pohozaev identities are developed, including a self-contained
exposition of the existence of standing and traveling waves.? Tools that allow the
derivation of general properties of minimizers, without any assumptions of symmetry,
such as a maximum principle or density and pointwise estimates.? Application of the
general tools to equivariant solutions rendering exponential estimates, rigidity theorems
and stratification results. This monograph is addressed to readers, beginning from
the graduate level, with an interest in any of the following: differential equations?
ordinary or partial; nonlinear analysis; the calculus of variations; the relationship
of minimal surfaces to diffuse interfaces; or the applied mathematics of materials
science
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : XII-343 p.
Sujet(s) : Fonctions elliptiques
Transitions de phases
Indice(s) Dewey :
515.983 (23e éd.) = Fonctions elliptiques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319905723. - ISBN 3319905724. - ISBN 9783319905716 (erroné). - ISBN 3319905716
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457796626
Notice n° :
FRBNF45779662
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Table des matières : Introduction.- Connections.- Basics for the PDE System.- The Cut-Off Lemma and a Maximum
Principle.- Estimates.- Symmetry and the Vector Allen-Cahn Equation: the Point Group
in Rn.- Symmetry and the Vector Allen-Cahn Equation: Crystalline and Other Complex
Structures.- Hierarchical Structure ; Stratification.- Vector Minimizers in R2.-
Radial Solutions of ∆u = c2u.